As to the fish inside the [harbor] at Fukushima I Nuke Plant, TEPCO consulted the fishermen in October [last year] and took measures to stop the fish from escaping the harbor. TEPCO's spokesman Mr. Ono says they didn't do anything about the fish escaping the bay until October. The highest level detected so far in the fish is 254,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium (Cs-134 and Cs-137).

The fish with 250,000 Bq/kg of cesium was a spotbelly rockfish. Kino continues:

It was spotbelly rockfish that was found with the highest level [of radioactive cesium]. If one eats 200 gram of fish, one gets 0.8 millisievert radiation exposure. If one eats 1 kilogram, 4 millisievert. Of course no one eats [this fish, that much], but we should remember that there are fish like that near Fukushima I Nuke Plant. We cannot say for sure that no fish escapes from the harbor.

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Even if they fully closed off the harbor this wasn't done in the early days of the accident fish came and went as they pleased. The ocean contamination also didn't confine itself to just the bay in front of the facility nor did it mix uniformly like the "experts" said. We have known since the Crossroads bomb test that radiation contamination in the ocean isn't uniform but the experts act like this is a "new" unknown.

@6:43 Agreed. In the aftermath of 3/11 the "experts" were saying on NHK that the effect of radiation decreases with the square of the distance from the source -- conveniently omitting that fallout dust gets right into your lungs, your bowels and eventually your muscle and your bones, so the "distance" is in fact very small.

Same goes for alpha and beta emitters: no need to worry because the penetration power of the radiation is very low, we were told... "unless you swallow the radioactive particle", was again conveniently omitted.

And I could go on and on with examples of this kind of misinformation that the "experts" provided us in these two years...Beppe

This is more proof that the FNPP is continually leaking not small amounts of radiation, as posited by oceanographers Ken Beussler and Jota Kanda; but also remember that ingesting radiation is much much different, qualitatively, that receiving gamma rays externally. Thus, Kino's analogy is imperfect. Internal radiation creates much more havoc on the particular cells it comes in contact with, so calling it exposure in the way Kino does makes it sounds as if you are getting a whole body dose, which it is not.

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